Scott D. Strader – Page 9 – An Echo That's Reversing

Suite for Orchestra, “Figures in a Landscape”–Finishing the first two movements, intent

Working on the 2nd movement, *Village I*

The cognitive dissonance of the Never Trumpers

I have issues with Never Trumpers.

It is difficult to work with the group who created catastrophic destruction, with which we are now dealing, in the effort to repair that destruction. It is even more difficult when that group regularly and arrogantly attacks us for being too disordered and ineffectual politically, and for allowing this catastrophe to happen by being so ineffectual.

reMarkable 2 tablet, first impressions

At the new job, a coworker uses the reMarkable e-ink tablet and has praised it as the perfect note-taking and design tool. They received it as a gift and were skeptical at first, but soon found it to be a fundamental and irreplaceable gadget. Though I only saw it used as a screen shared whiteboard, I was fascinated.

The research began.

American saints

We’re all struggling to find a reason to feel anything for the 4th…

Suite for Orchestra, “Figures in a Landscape”–Writing for untuned percussion

One lesson I learned back in 2019 when I was experimenting with orchestral writing was that–one personal revelation that is–I love writing for percussion. From college-and-after-days I’d always admired the drummer and their skill of body-wise coordination rather than hand coordination; admired it likely because it was simply of equal competency to a pianist yet foreign. And that sounds really arrogant, but I think it’s just more naivety of the percussionists’ milieu. No offense, but you’re awesome.